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Title: Plaza Buildings
Description: Photograph of the Country Club Plaza area, looking southwest from the top of the Fountain View building (later American Century north tower) at 45th and Main Streets circa 1987. The Parkway Towers apartment building occupies the foreground of the image, with other area commercial, office, and residential buildings in view.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Buildings
Description: Photograph, looking southwest from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), across the Plaza circa 1987. The Parkway Towers apartment building, at 4545 Wornall Road, occupies the left foreground, with J. C. Nichols Parkway apartment buildings to its right. Plaza commercial and residential buildings occupy the center and background of the image.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: South Plaza Buildings
Description: Photograph, looking south along Baltimore Avenue, of South Plaza apartment and office buildings in the late 1980s. The Casa Loma East and West and Biarritz apartment buildings can be seen to the south of Ward Parkway, with the Sulgrave apartment building to their south. East of Baltimore, the One Ward Parkway, Board of Trade, and 4900 Main office buildings are pictured, from north to south.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: South Plaza Buildings
Description: Photograph of buildings in the South Plaza neighborhood, looking southwest from a parking lot in the 4900 block of Main Street circa 1987. The 4900 Main Building, which includes United Missouri Bank as a tenant, is pictured at the right edge of the image. A parking garage stands to the west, and the Sulgrave Apartments building is pictured to the north.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Southmoreland and Plaza Buildings
Description: Photograph, looking southeast from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), across 47th Street toward the UMKC campus circa 1987. The Hilton Plaza Inn, at 1 West 45th, occupies the bottom left corner of the image, and numerous residential buildings are pictured lining 47th Street. Streetcar tracks can be seen running behind commercial buildings in the foreground, south diagonally across Main Street, before running alongside Brookside Boulevard south of Brush Creek. Main Street and Brookside Boulevard were later realigned as part of a Brush Creek beautification and flood control project in the 1990s.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street Buildings and Southmoreland
Description: Photograph, looking east from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), circa 1987. One Main Plaza office building occupies the left side of the image, and the Marriott Hotel on the right. The Southmoreland neighborhood and Kansas City Art Institute campus are visible between the buildings.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Area Main Street Buildings
Description: Photograph looking north across Brush Creek and Ward Parkway of buildings along Main Street circa 1987. Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), at 4500 Main Street, One Main Plaza at 4435 Main, and the Marriott Hotel, at 4445 Main, are among the buildings pictured. The Plaza's Giralda Tower can be seen at the left side of the image.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Residential and Commercial Buildings
Description: Photograph looking west from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower) of apartments, houses, other buildings west of J. C. Nichols Parkway, circa 1987. The Plaza West office tower, at 4600 Madison, can be seen in the background of the image. St. Luke's Hospital parking garages are visible at right, and Plaza-area residential and commercial buildings fill the majority of the image.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 301 East Armour Boulevard
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of an apartment building called the International at 301 East Armour Boulevard. It was originally referred to as the IBM building because IBM Corporation officed there. Located in the Hanover Place neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Board of Trade and 4900 Main Buildings
Description: Photograph, looking south from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), toward the intersection of 49th and Main Streets circa 1987. The Board of Trade and 4900 Main Street buildings are visible in the center of the image.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Scarritt Arcade Building
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of the Scarritt Arcade Building which is ajoined to the Scarritt Building. The Scarritt Building, 818 Grand Blvd, sits at the corner of 9th and Grand Streets and the Scarritt Arcade Building is at 819 Walnut Street. Built in 1907 by Root ;amp; Siemens architectural firm, the buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and the Kansas City Register of Historic Places in 1987.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Boley Building
Description: Photograph, circa 1980s, of the Boley Building at 1130 Walnut St. It is named the Boley Building for the Boley Clothing Company that was its first occupant. Later, a Katz Drug Store and Three Sisters Clothing Store were housed there. The six-story building was designed by Kansas City architect Louis Curtiss in 1909 and is one of the first buildings in the world to utilize a glass curtain wall system. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Lincoln Building
Description: Photograph of the Lincoln Building on the southeast corner of 18th and Vine in the late 1980s. The commercial and professional social building, with a third floor dance hall, opened in 1921 and served as a hub of Kansas City's black community. After several decades of decline, a renovation project, converting the building into office space, began in 1979 and completed in 1981.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Luzier Cosmetics Building
Description: Photograph of the Luzier Cosmetics Building at 3216 Gillham Plaza in the 1980s. The building was developed in two phases - the larger north wing was designed by local architecture firm Hoit, Price, ; Barnes in 1927 for Martha Washington Candy Company, and the smaller south wing designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters and added in 1928. Luzier purchased the north building and linked the two in 1933, at which time Peters' exterior ornamentation was extended to unify the structures. The building served as the headquarters for the Luzier Cosmetics company from 1928 to 2000.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: National Catholic Reporter
Description: Photograph of the National Catholic Reporter headquarters at the southwest corner of Armour and Warwick in the early 1980s. The building, originally built and used as a residence, was converted to use as offices in the 1950s. It has served as offices for the local AFL-CIO, the Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Kansas City, and became the headquarters of the National Catholic Reporter in the late 1970s.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Luzier Cosmetics Building
Description: Photograph of the southern wing of the Luzier Cosmetics Building at 3216 Gillham Plaza in the 1980s. The building was developed in two phases - the larger north wing was designed by local architecture firm Hoit, Price, ; Barnes in 1927 for Martha Washington Candy Company, and the smaller south wing designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters and added in 1928. Luzier purchased the north building and linked the two in 1933, at which time Peters' exterior ornamentation was extended to unify the structures. The building served as the headquarters for the Luzier Cosmetics company from 1928 to 2000.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Vitagraph Film Exchange Building
Description: Photograph of the Vitagraph Film Exchange building at the southeast corner of 17th and Wyandotte in the early 1980s. Built in 1930 by Warner Brothers, the building was part of Kansas City's Film Row, an area focused on the film distribution industry. Warner Brothers continued to occupy the building into the 1970s, but an "Office Space for Lease" sign is posted at the time of the photograph.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Livestock Exchange Building
Description: Photograph of the Livestock Exchange building at 1600 Genessee Street in the early 1980s. The building opened in 1910 as offices for the surrounding Kansas City stockyards operation, and was later converted to general office use after the closing of the stockyards. Signs advertise a Boatmen's Bank branch and a snack shop as tenants of the building. Golden Ox restaurant stands at the south end of the building.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: McConahay Building
Description: Photograph of the McConahay (later Carroll) Building at 1127 East 31st Street. The building was designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters and built in 1922. The second floor of the building served as the first location of Walt Disney's Laugh-O-Gram Films studio from the building's completion in early 1922 until Disney relocated ot California in June 1923.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Werby Building
Description: Photograph of the Werby Building at the southeast corner of 39th and Main Streets in 1979. The building was designed by Greenebaum, Hardy and Schumacher, opened in 1924, and consisted of office spaces on the second floor and storefronts on the ground level. Efforts to save the building from demolition led to Mayor Richard Berkley named a week in April 1979 "Werby Week," but it was razed not long after. Signs on plywood boards across the storefronts advertise a "Take Back the Night" event, an anti-nuclear energy rally to take place in Burlington, Kansas, at the Wolf Creek Generating Station, and upcoming concerts. The Hyde Park Building, on the northeast corner of 39th and Main, can be seen at the left of the photo, with the Hotel Netherlands to its north.
Date: 1979
Object Type: Photograph

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